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The Amber Spyglass (2000) by Philip Pullman
The first two books of HIS DARK MATERIALS were mainly told from the perspectives of the child main characters, Lyra and Will respectively. Each childhood character gets their own story and adventures told, their characters built up, and their relationships with others filled out. Nipping at the edges of their stories is a much grander epic on the side of the adult characters, involving war, religion, oppression, trauma, and so on. In many ways, the first two books of the series feel like prologues to THE AMBER SYPGLASS, which expands its perspective to include multiple point-of-view characters covering all sorts of subsets of the larger story. Angels, aliens, and a remixing of Genesis, such things come to the fore. All the while, Lyra and Will are at that stage of their lives where they're well and truly growing up, and the series makes its fundamental points about childhood, adulthood, maturity, and self-actualisation plain as such things all wind to a close.
[spoilers for THE AMBER SPYGLASS below]
The expanded scope makes the first two books seem like prologues in setting up their child characters and respective worlds, before swivelling into the epic war against God narrative.
Balthamos said quietly, "The Authority, God, the Creator, the Lord, Yahweh, El, Adonai, the King, the Father, the Almighty—those were all names he gave himself. He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves—the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.
But that narrative is closed remarkably offhandedly, 'God's' death coming as mercy from two children, unaware of what they were doing.
Between them they helped the ancient of days out of his crystal cell; it wasn't hard, for he was as light as paper, and he would have followed them anywhere, having no will of his own, and responding to simple kindness like a flower to the sun. But in the open air there was nothing to stop the wind from damaging him, and to their dismay his form began to loosen and dissolve. Only a few moments later he had vanished completely, and their last impression was of those eyes, blinking in wonder, and a sigh of the most profound and exhausted relief.
And at that point, there is still plenty of the novel left. What comes after is the real critical piece of the whole series, the narrative being substituted into a love story. The first two books set up Lyra and Will's characters in detail and depth. In the third book, they both naturally age, and go through enough harrowing experiences, that they certainly reach puberty and have well and truly begun to mature into young adults. The book (and THE SUBTLE KNIFE too, to a lesser extent) is peppered with unconscious developments as to their attraction to each other.
And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion.
Baruch sat down beside his companion, and Will stirred the fire, so that a cloud of smoke drifted past the two of them. It had the effect of outlining their bodies so that he could see them both clearly for the first time. Balthamos was slender; his narrow wings were folded elegantly behind his shoulders, and his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects. But he saw no defects in Baruch, that was clear. Baruch seemed younger, as Balthamos had said he was, and was more powerfully built, his wings snow-white and massive. He had a simpler nature; he looked up to Balthamos as to the fount of all knowledge and joy. Will found himself intrigued and moved by their love for each other.
"Will, I want us to take all these poor dead ghost kids outside—the grownups as well—we could set 'em free! We'll find Roger and your father, and then let's open the way to the world outside, and set 'em all free!"
He turned and gave her a true smile, so warm and happy she felt something stumble and falter inside her; at least, it felt like that, but without Pantalaimon she couldn't ask herself what it meant. It might have been a new way for her heart to beat. Deeply surprised, she told herself to walk straight and stop feeling giddy.
Presently she rolled over and saw Will, still fast asleep. His hand had bled a lot, his shirt was ripped and filthy, his hair was stiff with dust and sweat. She looked at him for a long time, at the little pulse in his throat, at his chest rising and falling slowly, at the delicate shadows his eyelashes made when the sun finally reached them.
"But he loved my mother," said Will. "And I can tell her that he was never unfaithful."
Lyra, looking at Will, thought that if he fell in love, he would be like that.
"D'you think you'll get married?"
He was quiet for a long time. She knew he was thinking, though.
"I can't see that far ahead," he said. "It would have to be someone who understands about … I don't think there's anyone like that in my world. Would you get married?"
"Me too," she said. "Not to anyone in my world, I shouldn't think."
There are more awkward moments regarding sexuality as well.
"Well …" she said, and set her beaker down on the ground, leaning forward so that her hair swung down on either side of her face. When she sat up again, she tucked it back behind her ears with both hands, and Will smelled the fragrance of some scent she was wearing combined with the fresh smell of her body, and he felt disturbed.
"There's probably a great deal that's mysterious to you, my Lord President, starting with the relations between a mother and her child. If you thought for one moment that I would release my daughter into the care—the care!—of a body of men with a feverish obsession with sexuality, men with dirty fingernails, reeking of ancient sweat, men whose furtive imaginations would crawl over her body like cockroaches—if you thought I would expose my child to that, my Lord President, you are more stupid than you take me for."
They looked at her: her eyes were glittering more than usual, her chin was held high with a look she'd learned from Will without knowing it. She looked defiant as well as lost, Dame Hannah thought, and admired her for it; and the Master saw something else—he saw how the child's unconscious grace had gone, and how she was awkward in her growing body. But he loved the girl dearly, and he felt half-proud and half in awe of the beautiful adult she would be, so soon.
The book essentially seeks to reframe Original Sin as a good thing, sex and maturity and puberty as a good thing, all the human expressions that institutions clamp down on so as to control people as good things. This goes back the ending of the first novel, where Lyra and Pan decide that Dust is probably a good thing, since all those claiming it's bad seem rather twisted themselves.
"If in order to destroy Dust we also have to destroy the Oblation Board, the College of Bishops, every single agency by which the Holy Church does the work of the Authority—then so be it. It may be, gentlemen, that the Holy Church itself was brought into being to perform this very task and to perish in the doing of it. But better a world with no Church and no Dust than a world where every day we have to struggle under the hideous burden of sin. Better a world purged of all that!"
What happened to give you the sraf?
We discovered how to use the wheels. One day a creature with no name discovered a seedpod and began to play, and as she played she—
She?
She, yes. She had no name before then. She saw a snake coiling itself through the hole in a seedpod, and the snake said—
The snake spoke to her?
No, no! It is a make-like. The story tells that the snake said, "What do you know? What do you remember? What do you see ahead?" And she said, "Nothing, nothing, nothing." So the snake said, "Put your foot through the hole in the seedpod where I was playing, and you will become wise." So she put a foot in where the snake had been. And the oil entered her blood and helped her see more clearly than before
"Well, where is God," said Mrs. Coulter, "if he's alive? And why doesn't he speak anymore? At the beginning of the world, God walked in the Garden and spoke with Adam and Eve. Then he began to withdraw, and he forbade Moses to look at his face. Later, in the time of Daniel, he was aged—he was the Ancient of Days. Where is he now? Is he still alive, at some inconceivable age, decrepit and demented, unable to think or act or speak and unable to die, a rotten hulk? And if that is his condition, wouldn't it be the most merciful thing, the truest proof of our love for God, to seek him out and give him the gift of death?"
"This is a bitter message, a sad and cruel joke. Can't you see the truth? This is not a child. This is an agent of the Evil One himself! The world we lived in was a vale of corruption and tears. Nothing there could satisfy us. But the Almighty has granted us this blessed place for all eternity, this paradise, which to the fallen soul seems bleak and barren, but which the eyes of faith see as it is, overflowing with milk and honey and resounding with the sweet hymns of the angels. This is Heaven, truly! What this evil girl promises is nothing but lies. She wants to lead you to Hell! Go with her at your peril. My companions and I of the true faith will remain here in our blessed paradise, and spend eternity singing the praises of the Almighty, who has given us the judgment to tell the false from the true."
The church, and institutions like it, are essentially cast as infantile here, preferring a blinkered and simplified view of the world in favour of the more complex, difficult-to-understand, and prone-to-pain encompassing view of the world. This gets rather explicit towards the end, where the story has arced to such points that Pullman feels free to have one character opine directly on the matter.
"Ah, but I knew about them. I used to be a nun, you see. I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn't any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all."
"When you stopped believing in God," he went on, "did you stop believing in good and evil?"
"No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels."
This more complex view of the world includes lies and falsehoods not inherently being condemnable things.
"Yeah, that's true, that would be awful … You know, with my mother, I never realized … I just grew up on my own, really; I don't remember anyone ever holding me or cuddling me, it was just me and Pan as far back as I can go … I can't remember Mrs. Lonsdale being like that to me; she was the housekeeper at Jordan College, all she did was make sure I was clean, that's all she thought about … oh, and manners … But in the cave, Will, I really felt—oh, it's strange, I know she's done terrible things, but I really felt she was loving me and looking after me … She must have thought I was going to die, being asleep all that time—I suppose I must've caught some disease—but she never stopped looking after me. And I remember waking up once or twice and she was holding me in her arms … I do remember that, I'm sure … That's what I'd do in her place, if I had a child."
So she didn't know why she'd been asleep all that time. Should he tell her, and betray that memory, even if it was false? No, of course he shouldn't.
"I remember you said something strange, on Svalbard, on the mountaintop, just before you left our world," she went on. "You said: Come with me, and we'll destroy Dust forever. You remember saying that? But you didn't mean it. You meant the very opposite, didn't you? I see now. Why didn't you tell me what you were really doing? Why didn't you tell me you were really trying to preserve Dust? You could have told me the truth."
"I wanted you to come and join me," he said, his voice hoarse and quiet, "and I thought you would prefer a lie."
"Yes," she whispered, "that's what I thought."
The prince of the angels looked at her. It was the most searching examination Marisa Coulter had ever undergone. Every scrap of shelter and deceit was stripped away, and she stood naked, body and ghost and dæmon together, under the ferocity of Metatron's gaze.
And she knew that her nature would have to answer for her, and she was terrified that what he saw in her would be insufficient. Lyra had lied to Iofur Raknison with her words; her mother was lying with her whole life.
"Yes, I see," said Metatron.
"Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious, probing curiosity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion or sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cesspit of moral filth."
That voice, delivering that judgment, shook Mrs. Coulter profoundly. She knew it was coming, and she dreaded it; and yet she hoped for it, too, and now that it had been said, she felt a little gush of triumph.
He said, "You will never be lost while this college is standing, Lyra. This is your home for as long as you need it. As for money—your father made over an endowment to care for all your needs, and appointed me executor; so you needn't worry about that."
In fact, Lord Asriel had done nothing of the sort, but Jordan College was rich, and the Master had money of his own, even after the recent upheavals.
Lyra – liar – Silvertongue, our protagonist, has always embodied this, through the conflation of lies with stories.
"And we have the right to refuse to guide them if they lie, or if they hold anything back, or if they have nothing to tell us. If they live in the world, they should see and touch and hear and learn things. We shall make an exception for infants who have not had time to learn anything, but otherwise, if they come down here bringing nothing, we shall not guide them out."
The distinction between 'good lies' and the institutional falsehoods of the church aren't always clear – and that's partly the point. There aren't clearly designed gridlines to box the world into. In Pullman's view, morality is actionable and ongoing, not something prescribed and settled. The novel constructs a fantastical world of the dead, but ultimately reckons with the more atheistic idea of oblivion, framing it as a good thing, a relief, not something to be afraid of. This is the kind of maturity Pullman is trying to tell a story about.
"This is what'll happen," she said, "and it's true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your dæmons did. If you've seen people dying, you know what that looks like. But your dæmons en't just nothing now; they're part of everything. All the atoms that were them, they've gone into the air and the wind and the trees and the earth and all the living things. They'll never vanish. They're just part of everything. And that's exactly what'll happen to you, I swear to you, I promise on my honor. You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again."
So it's fitting that ultimately it's a story, a recollection, told by the character contorted as Satanic, the serpent in the Garden of Eden, for telling an emotionally wholesome, sexually-charged story to two puberty entrants who find themselves affixed by their newly developing feelings and bodies. The most powerful parts of the series proceed from here.
"I was twelve years old. I was at a party at the house of one of my friends, a birthday party, and there was a disco—that's where they play music on a kind of recording machine and people dance," she explained, seeing Lyra's puzzlement. "Usually girls dance together because the boys are too shy to ask them. But this boy—I didn't know him—he asked me to dance, and so we had the first dance and then the next, and by that time we were talking … And you know what it is when you like someone, you know it at once; well, I liked him such a lot. And we kept on talking and then there was a birthday cake. And he took a bit of marzipan and he just gently put it in my mouth—I remember trying to smile, and blushing, and feeling so foolish—and I fell in love with him just for that, for the gentle way he touched my lips with the marzipan."
As Mary said that, Lyra felt something strange happen to her body. She found a stirring at the roots of her hair: she found herself breathing faster. She had never been on a roller-coaster, or anything like one, but if she had, she would have recognized the sensations in her breast: they were exciting and frightening at the same time, and she had not the slightest idea why. The sensation continued, and deepened, and changed, as more parts of her body found themselves affected too. She felt as if she had been handed the key to a great house she hadn't known was there, a house that was somehow inside her, and as she turned the key, deep in the darkness of the building she felt other doors opening too, and lights coming on. She sat trembling, hugging her knees, hardly daring to breathe, as Mary went on…
"And I think it was at that party, or it might have been at another one, that we kissed each other for the first time. It was in a garden, and there was the sound of music from inside, and the quiet and the cool among the trees, and I was aching—all my body was aching for him, and I could tell he felt the same—and we were both almost too shy to move. Almost. But one of us did and then without any interval between—it was like a quantum leap, suddenly—we were kissing each other, and oh, it was more than China, it was paradise.
Then Lyra took one of those little red fruits. With a fast-beating heart, she turned to him and said, "Will …"
And she lifted the fruit gently to his mouth.
She could see from his eyes that he knew at once what she meant, and that he was too joyful to speak. Her fingers were still at his lips, and he felt them tremble, and he put his own hand up to hold hers there, and then neither of them could look; they were confused; they were brimming with happiness.
Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened, they were clinging together, blindly pressing their faces toward each other.
"Like Mary said," he whispered, "you know straight away when you like someone—when you were asleep, on the mountain, before she took you away, I told Pan—"
"I heard," she whispered, "I was awake and I wanted to tell you the same and now I know what I must have felt all the time: I love you, Will, I love you—"
The word love set his nerves ablaze. All his body thrilled with it, and he answered her in the same words, kissing her hot face over and over again, drinking in with adoration the scent of her body and her warm, honey-fragrant hair and her sweet, moist mouth that tasted of the little red fruit.
Will trembled with excitement, and his mind leapt to a single point: to a new window in the air between his world and Lyra's. And it would be their secret, and they could go through whenever they chose, and live for a while in each other's worlds, not living fully in either, so their dæmons would keep their health; and they could grow up together and maybe, much later on, they might have children, who would be secret citizens of two worlds; and they could bring all the learning of one world into the other, they could do all kinds of good—
Where the series really makes its thesis statement isn't with the blooming of this romance, but with how it's cut short, and how the two former children reckon with that fact maturely. They gnash their teeth and wail about how circumstances of the worldbuilding prevent them ever seeing each other again, but they self-actualise, they do not act selfishly, they prioritise the needs of humantiy over themselves. They commit to treasuring their time together, honouring their memories of each other, and, remarkably, even make the very mature choice of not blotting out their futures for each other.
And Will knew what it was to see his dæmon. As she flew down to the sand, he felt his heart tighten and release in a way he never forgot. Sixty years and more would go by, and as an old man he would still feel some sensations as bright and fresh as ever: Lyra's fingers putting the fruit between his lips under the gold-and-silver trees; her warm mouth pressing against his; his dæmon being torn from his unsuspecting breast as they entered the world of the dead; and the sweet rightfulness of her coming back to him at the edge of the moonlit dunes.
"I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again …"
"I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you … We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams … And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight …"
They lay side by side, hand in hand, looking at the sky.
"And if we—later on—" she was whispering shakily, "if we meet someone that we like, and if we marry them, then we must be good to them, and not make comparisons all the time and wish we were married to each other instead … But just keep up this coming here once a year, just for an hour, just to be together …"
Lyra at eighteen sitting intent and absorbed in Duke Humfrey's Library with the alethiometer and a pile of leather-bound books. Tucking the hair back behind her ears, pencil in mouth, finger moving down a list of symbols, Pantalaimon holding the stiff old pages open for her … "Look, Pan, there's a pattern there—see? That's why they're in that sequence!" And it felt as if the sun had come out. It was the second thing she said to Will next day in the Botanic Garden.
Staying apart is the difficult but correct action. This reflects the realities of life perhaps more keenly than anything else in the series. It is heart-rending, and Pullman is wise enough a storyteller to know that not only do constraints make for good storytelling, but tragedy makes for good romance – but, crucially, his encompassing view of morality and love see his take on romance as nuanced, melding a youthful forever-love with the reality of eventually falling in love with people, neither thought tarnishing the other. All these things are 'adult' thoughts, and that's the power of having a children's book series grow into them. These books are for children, and that's what's powerful about them. Rather than a feedback loop of childishness, they use a children's type of story to remix institutional lies and oppressions, to reframe natural beauty and human growth and behaviour. When Lyra returns to Jordan, she meets a woman she described in the first novel as frumpy, boring, unlikable. That woman has not changed, but the woman that Lyra became in the third novel has, and so the description changes as well.
This time it was a smaller party: just herself and the Master and Dame Hannah Relf, the head of St. Sophia's, one of the women's colleges. Dame Hannah had been at that first dinner, too, and if Lyra was surprised to see her here now, she greeted her politely, and found that her memory was at fault: for this Dame Hannah was much cleverer, and more interesting, and kindlier by far than the dim and frumpy person she remembered.
Far more than any typical children's sort of monomythical retelling, this trilogy's recontextualisation of Genesis paints a nuanced, emotionally keen view on the transformation of children into adults – and the beauty and grace of such a thing. Four seedpods, and two names carved into a bench.
December 20, 2019 in Book Reviews.
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Some preschool teachers introduce the alphabet.
Kindergarten is often the official beginning of a child's public school education. Many parents, however, give their little ones a head start on learning by sending them to preschool. In this beginning environment, preschool teachers stay with the same students throughout the day and impart lessons ranging from art to keeping clean.
States and employers have different regulations for preschool teachers. Some locations, such as childcare centers, accept preschool teachers who have only a high-school diploma. However, most employers prefer those with some training in early childhood education. Courses in early childhood education are available in community colleges and can last up to two years for an associate's degree. The associate's degree is a required minimum for teachers working in Head Start programs administered by the federal government for underprivileged kids. Many employers running the Head Start programs, as well as those who run pre-schools in public schools, prefer teachers with bachelor's degrees.
Certification from national organizations can enhance job prospects because it documents skills that meet objective standards. Examples of such credentials include the Child Development Associate offered by the Council for Professional Recognition and the Child Care Professional from National Early Childhood Program Accreditation. Certification requirements differ slightly but usually demand at least a high-school diploma, job experience and some post-secondary coursework. Maintaining the credential may mandate continuing education in the field.
As of May 2011, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), preschool teachers earned a mean $30,750 per year. The lowest-paid 10 percent received under $18,090 yearly, while the highest-paid 10 percent made over an annual $48,660. With over two-thirds of the available preschool teaching jobs, child day care services were the biggest employers offering annual pay of $26,610.
The BLS expects jobs for preschool teachers to increase by 25 percent from 2010 to 2020, with child day care services showing 30 percent growth, and religious, grant-making, civic and professional organizations having 17 percent increases. Population growth will be behind the demand because more people means more children. The best jobs will go to those with bachelor's degrees.
Locsin, Aurelio. "Preschool Teacher Duties & Salary." Work - Chron.com, http://work.chron.com/preschool-teacher-duties-salary-19488.html. Accessed 20 April 2019.
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Lochmaben Stone (Clochmabenstane/Old Graitney) (Standing Stone / Menhir) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK & Ireland's most popular megalithic community website. 13 images, 1 fieldnote, 2 weblinks, plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the UK & Ireland.
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Delilah Beasley
Directions to 705 - 34th St.
One of the goals of this walking tour is to preserve Black history. Sadly, many stories of California's earliest African-American residents have already been lost. For many years, mainstream history books ignored the contributions of Black cowboys, miners, and settlers, leaving an unfillable gap in the collective memory. This gap would have been much bigger if not for the heroic efforts of Delilah Beasley.
Although it's not known exactly when Beasley was born in Ohio (either 1867 or 1871), she moved from the Midwest to the East Bay around 1910. Upon arriving here, she quickly realized that the last generation of "negro pioneers" from the Gold Rush era were dying out and that nobody had recorded their stories. She spent nearly a decade researching this history of African Americans in California. In addition to interviewing elders, she combed through old journals, crumbling newspapers, and dusty archives. In 1919, she self-published a compilation of her findings entitled The Negro Trail Blazers of California. Although the book didn't sell many copies at first, it provided a crucial document for future generations of historians.
Beasley was also the first Black woman to write a regular column for a major American newspaper. Beginning in 1923, she chronicled newsworthy items about the local Black community in her weekly feature called "Activities Among Negroes." During an era when people of color were either ignored or portrayed negatively in the media, Beasley shined a positive light on Black culture by covering everything from weddings to visits by national NAACP leaders and famous entertainers.
Although Beasley was laid to rest at St. Mary's Cemetery in 1934, you are now standing in front of the house where she lived the last years of her life. Press the play button ▶ below to hear more about Delilah Beasley from another champion of Black history, Dorothy Lazard of the Oakland Public Library.
"Every life casts its shadow, my life plus others make a power to move the world. I, therefore, pledge my life to the living world of brotherhood and mutual understanding between the races."

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We provide groups with good service and great food. During the hunt we will set you out and provide you with drinks. After a morning or evening in the field, we will clean and package your limit of dove and have a ribeye steak, salad and baked potato waiting for you when you return to the clubhouse. Our hunts are very popular, and days are limited, so book your hunt soon.


HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (August 2017) — Thursday, September 7th will serve as the kick-off date for Shelter Cove Harbour & Marina's spring and fall live music tradition, "Music & Taste on the Harbour." The free event is open to the public, and mixes live, local music with gourmet food, shopping and sunset water views from 6-9 p.m. on Thursday evenings.
The fall season will conclude October 19th.
Attendees are invited to dance by the iconic Neptune Statue and enjoy the sunset water views in Shelter Cove Harbour & Marina, as well as enjoy light appetizers, along with wine, beer and cocktail specials from Shelter Cove Harbour & Marina restaurants.
Entrance to the event is free and the event is weather permitting. No coolers or outside food are allowed and limited seating is available. Attendees are encouraged to bring canned good donations for the Deep Well Project. Go here for more information about Music & Taste on the Harbour or call 843-548-0060.


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A POTENTIAL DROPOUT GETS SMART, Ann Strosnider, Sun Staff
Ann Strosnider — Mar 26th, 1991
Billie Reynolds' two closest friends are school dropouts and young mothers. When she was 15 it looked as if Billie were heading in the same direction.
"When I was in the 9th grade I think I felt that my friends were more important than school," says the North Kitsap High School junior. "I would tell my parents that I had finished my homework when I hadn't. I passed only two classes, had a .67 grade average and didn't have enough credits to be a 10th grader."
Now, at 17, Billie plans to go to college. Although she says her friends who dropped out of school are doing fine and are very supportive of her, she has chosen a different path.
You might say that between her 9th and 10th grade years, Billie got SMART.
She was selected as one of six Kitsap County students to take part in a state-funded summer program the Summer Motivation and Academic Residential Training or SMART program.
She and 64 other students from around the state spent eight weeks at Western Washington University in Bellingham living in the dorms, taking classes, working and getting the individualized attention they needed.
"They welcomed us, they were really nice," she says of the staff at Bellingham. "It was really fun. I went to school four hours a day and worked for four hours a day and earned English, math and vocational credit."
Rules were strict no smoking, no drinking and required attendance at meetings, classes and work. But the rewards were great as well.
"In the evenings we had recreation time we got to use all the facilities on campus, including the swimming pool. And I loved meeting all the people everybody was so encouraging; now I depend on them."
At the end of the eight weeks, Billie and the other students donned caps and gowns for a formal graduation ceremony.
Billie did so well in the program she was chosen to return last summer as a peer counselor for other kids. She's also testified twice before the state Legislature in support of continued funding for SMART.
"I told them what I think of when I think of SMART happiness, satisfaction, family and friends."
Billie's participation brought her praise and support from her parents, Edna Ives and Richard Reynolds, and from friends on the S'kallam reservation where she lives.
"I came from a family where not many people went to college," she says. "My mother had me when she was 17 and she never graduated from high school. One of my friends dropped out when we were in 8th grade."
Billie says she's not sure what career she will pursue, but she knows she wants to go to college. She now enjoys academic work her Humanities class at NKHS is a favorite and has brought her grade point average up to 2.5.
Sue Kitchel, director of Sound Institute's Employment and Training Division, says she's now beginning the selection process for the coming summer program. To be eligible, students must be 14 or 15, entering 9th or 10th grade and "at risk" for dropping out of school. They must be short on grades but long on potential for benefiting from SMART.
The program serves 170 students each summer on three university campuses. Billie says she wishes more kids could be part of it.
Testing gets real
Illustration by Jessica Randklev, Sun Staff Pressure on students, already intense, gets kicked up a notch this year as the graduating class of 2008 enters ninth grade. This year's high school freshmen will be the first in the state to have to pass a ... [Read More...]
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NUTGRAPH: At 15, Joey Roberson was a tough guy. And in trouble. His grades were bad. He had begun hanging out with gang members and selling drugs. By Rob McDonald Sun Staff Joey Roberson is 15. He hasn't made good marks in school since the ... [Read More...]
SUMMER SCHOOL: Stretching the brain
* Summer school gives students another option to meet state standards. Many students trade summer days swimming for lessons that will buoy their reading and math skills for the coming school year. Districts across Kitsap County are using the summer months to help students ... [Read More...]
Native American educational advance
>b With this year's dropout rate at a first-ever zero percent, tribal leaders are pleased that Native American students in North Kitsap schools are making first-time educational advances. By Adele Berlinski Sun Staff At North Kitsap High in 1986, 60 percent of the Native ... [Read More...]
Billie Reynolds' two closest friends are school dropouts and young mothers. When she was 15 it looked as if Billie were heading in the same direction. "When I was in the 9th grade I think I felt that my friends were more important than ... [Read More...]


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Journal supplement details progress in African medical education
By atesmeh | July 31, 2014
Medical education in sub-Saharan Africa is being revitalized and expanded through a U.S.-funded effort that is dramatically increasing enrollment, broadening curricula, upgrading Internet access and providing cutting-edge skills labs and other technologies.
In the first substantial publication by participants of the $130 million Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI), more than 225 authors detailed progress being made at the African institutions. Their reports are in a supplement being published today by the journal Academic Medicine. Begun in 2010, MEPI is funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the National Institutes of Health, and is co-administered by NIH's Fogarty International Center and the Health Resources and Services Administration.
"MEPI is a major venture in international educational innovation that has generated new thinking, energy and optimism in the field of medical education in Africa," the program partners write in a foreword article to the supplement.
The 32 articles include case studies of national strategies to increase numbers of doctors and health professionals trained; educational innovations such as e-learning and regional training sites; research capacity development, and partnerships that leverage advances across the MEPI network.
MEPI participants provided details of accomplishments made through the program, including:
In Zimbabwe, medical student and postgraduate enrollment have both nearly doubled, from 260 in 2010 to 513 in 2013, and the Ministry of Higher Education has committed additional financial support to sustain the progress.
A decentralized training network of 14 regional hospitals has been established in Kenya, and has provided instruction for more than 300 medical, nursing, dental and pharmacy students.
Internal medicine (IM) physicians were in short supply in Mozambique, so salary supplements, Internet access, and notebook computers were offered to encourage recruitment, resulting in an increase in IM residents from 10 before MEPI to 75 in 2012.
Fourteen new master's level programs were begun in Zambia, including physiological sciences, pharmacology, anatomy, pathology, microbiology and nursing.
A virtual microscopy system was introduced in Zambia, containing 4,000 electronic images, which increased student access and is more cost-effective than optical microscopy using glass slides.
A research administration office was created in Ethiopia to assist faculty in grant writing and management, and 18 faculty members were supported to present their research at international conferences.
The supplement on MEPI progress also includes commentaries from global health experts such as former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Dr. Eric Goosby, MEPI Coordinating Center principal investigator Dr. Francis G. Omaswa and Fogarty International Center Director Dr. Roger I. Glass.
The critical shortage of physicians, researchers and health care workers across sub-Saharan Africa spurred MEPI's creation. While the region suffers 25 percent of the global burden of disease, it has only 3 percent of the world's health care workers, according to the World Health Organization. The impact of HIV/AIDS created an urgent need to increase capacity, wrote Goosby and his co-author Deborah von Zinkernagel, former PEPFAR deputy. "Although concerns arose that resources were being diverted from "services," it was evident to PEPFAR leadership that the ongoing and expanding needs of the HIV-infected community could not be successfully sustained without increasing the number of trained health professionals," they added.
By awarding the grants directly to African institutions, MEPI is cultivating sustainable local leadership, Omaswa maintained. "For Africa to accelerate the speed of the ongoing transformation, it is necessary for Africans to step up and take ownership and responsibility for what happens in their own backyards," he said.
Research is embedded in curricula developed through MEPI, to expand local capacity that will drive innovation. African scientists have already contributed to many "game-changing" HIV-related advances such as development of rapid diagnostics for detecting and monitoring HIV infections, noted Glass and his Fogarty co-authors. "The research perspective provided to students and faculty, the ability to raise and answer questions and the idea that medical knowledge and practice are continually changing are being supported by MEPI sites and will hopefully endure long after the program ends," they continued.
Initially conceived as a five-year program, MEPI funders and participants are now developing plans for a second phase of investment in Africa's medical education.
Original Release: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-07/nic-jsd073014.php
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Queqiao (Chang'e 4 relay satellite)
Long March 4C
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Sun · May 20th, 2018
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Type: Planetary Science
Chang'e 4 is a Chinese lunar exploration mission that will incorporate an orbiter, a robotic lander and rover. The orbiter serves as a communications relay satellite. It will be placed into a halo orbit around the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point and is planned to support further missions to the far side of the Moon.
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 )
Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China
99 launches have been at this location.
Long March 4
First Launched: December 8, 2020
The Long March 4C, also known as the Chang Zheng 4C, CZ-4C and LM-4C, previously designated Long March 4B-II, is a Chinese orbital carrier rocket. It is launched from the Jiuquan, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre and Xichangs, and consists of 3 stages. Long March 4C vehicles have been used to launch the Yaogan-1, Yaogan-3 SAR satellites and the Fengyun-3A polar orbiting meteorological satellite. On December 15, 2009 a Long March 4C was used to launch Yaogan 8.
The Long March 4 rocket has been launched a total of 24 times with 22 successful and 2 failed launches.
Abbreviation: CASC
Administration: Chairmen & President: Lei Fanpei
Launchers: Long March
Country: CHN
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is the main contractor for the Chinese space program. It is state-owned and has a number of subordinate entities which design, develop and manufacture a range of spacecraft, launch vehicles, strategic and tactical missile systems, and ground equipment. It was officially established in July 1999 as part of a Chinese government reform drive, having previously been one part of the former China Aerospace Corporation. Various incarnations of the program date back to 1956.
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Long March 4, People's Republic of China, Xichang Satellite Launch Center


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I was cutting it close by working on it until nearly the day of the convention it was supposed to premiere at! But you can see the bottom string-attach knob has been put on, the edges of the front panel have been done.
Here's an interior view including the speakers, iPod, and terrible (hidden) paint job.
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The paint job on the backside (beautifully sanded, if I do say) of the sitar. I am very proud of it.
I'm not happy with it, but the curved sitar bridge.
The final shot of the sitar before it went into active costume phase. I am still so proud of this prop.
The sitar in its final glory, with me in costume. I was lifting it strangely in this shot to get the whole thing into frame. I finally chose fishing thread as my choice of strings so they would be somewhat invisible, and I love how the flash reacted with them.
1) Resin and fiber glass.
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Corgi Shepherd Mix comes from the cross breeding of a Welsh Corgi with a German Shepherd. This breed is commonly referred to as the Corman Shepherd. This is a fairly common cross because these dogs tend to take the best characteristics from the parents.
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Genetic analysis of the TB bacteria revealed how a 44-year-old man who died of the disease in 2012 caught the drug-resistant infection from a healthcare worker who had worked in South Africa, when both were admitted on the same medical ward four years earlier.
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Black Caps recall Broom
Otago Volts batsman Neil Broom has been named in the Black Caps 13-player ODI squad for the ODI series against Bangladesh that gets underway later this month. Having last played an ODI in 2010, Broom will have the opportunity to add to his 22 matches to date when the series begins on Boxing Day in […]
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Otago Volts batsman Neil Broom has been named in the Black Caps 13-player ODI squad for the ODI series against Bangladesh that gets underway later this month.
Having last played an ODI in 2010, Broom will have the opportunity to add to his 22 matches to date when the series begins on Boxing Day in Christchurch.
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Luke Ronchi also returns to the squad, with BJ Watling, Henry Nicholls and Todd Astle the omissions from the recent Chappell-Hadlee tour to Australia.
Having played for Derbyshire last season, Broom has opted to forgo the second year of his County contract to allow him the opportunity to play for the Black Caps again.
Broom said: "I appreciate everything Derbyshire have done for me and have really enjoyed my time with the club.
"At the end of the day I couldn't pass up the opportunity to represent New Zealand and am excited about the opportunity to play international cricket again. It's the ultimate."
Black Caps Selector Gavin Larsen said both Broom and Ronchi brought a lot to the squad.
Larsen commented: "With 12 years of domestic cricket under his belt and having previously spent time in the Black Caps squad, Neil brings a lot of experience to the group.
"Neil was the top run-scorer in the Ford Trophy competition last year, with an average of 84.66. He has an impressive strike-rate and obviously fills the number four role with Ross out injured.
"It's been pleasing to see Luke scoring runs for Wellington again and he returns as one one of the most experienced members of the squad. At this stage we see him as the best ODI gloveman in the country and the leadership he brings to the group is also immensely valuable."
Larsen conceded the team was in a rebuilding stage following the retirements of a number of top players.
Larsen added: "There's six players in this side from the squad of 15 who featured for us in the world cup last year, so it's important we give the new players the opportunity to feel comfortable on the international stage.
"That takes time. You can't replace 900 ODI caps and the leadership that comes with that experience overnight, but it's an exciting new group and we're learning a lot with each match that is played.
"Although the side is rebuilding it's very important that we do see improvements during the home summer."
The team come into camp on 23-24 December in Christchurch.


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Lagasse, an empire unto himself with 13 restaurants, 14 cookbooks and a new one-hour TV series (debuts March 28 on ION television), will preside over a food and wine dinner, "E Komo Mai, New Orleans," 6 p.m. April 9 ($150 per person), give a live cooking demonstration, 11 a.m. to noon on April 10 ($100 per person), and prepare a final night dinner, "Emeril's Kama'aina Affair," 6 p.m. April 10 ($100). Details on events and special room rates: 739-8888, 800-367-2525 or http://www.kahalaresort.com.
With a lifelong devotion to Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice in Wonderland" and the release Friday of Tim Burton's new film based on the book, Maui food writer Molly Jacobson knew she had to do something special for her March 4 birthday. The plan: a benefit party for the cash-strapped Maui Food Bank catered by and held at the new Whole Foods Store in Kahului's Maui Mall, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.


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REVIEW: Ken Ham's Journey ... | Know Theatre of Cincinnati | Cincinnati Enquirer
"Clearly, this is a plot that pits good guys versus bad, nut cases versus reasonable. But it's to Tatum's credit that we're rarely sure which is which. At first, we think we know. But Tatum doesn't let us – or them – off the hook quite so simply. There are no black-and-white solutions to ideas and theories as complex as these."
"As with most collaborations between Tatum and director Bridget Leak, there is a certain unruliness to this show."
" ... as with every production by Tatum and Leak, there is more than enough substance to keep our minds working well after the final scene ends."
— David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, December 5, 2016
Source: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/theater/2016/12/05/review-ken-hams-journey-center-earth/95011730/
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REVIEW: Andy's House of [BLANK] | Know Theatre of Cincinnati | CityBeat
""Director Bridget Leak has given the piece continuity and flow. ""
""The music is great, and there are lots of laughs along the way, but the story is a serious, poignant rumination about love, longing and how to move forward by looking back.""
— Rick Pender, CityBeat
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REVIEW: Andy's House of Blank | Know Theatre of Cincinnati | Cincinnati Enquirer
""... an eloquent and entertaining show about love and memory and the excruciating power of disappointment.""
""It's exhausting. And exhilarating. And heartbreaking.""
""... a cycle of purposefully repetitive scenes of introspection and confessions and revelations that are as dismaying as they are filled with hope and desperation.""
""In the end, though, this is Strickand and Tatum's show. They're engaging and driven, performers who seem born to stand in front of an audience. They have stories to tell. Lots of them. You get the sense that without [Director Bridget] Leak there to rein them in, they would still be standing center stage, spinning great stories when the sun came up.""
""[Strickland and Tatum] have crafted a piece of theater that is tender and ribald, witty and touching. And it is oh-so-smart.""
Source: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/theater/2015/10/31/know-theatre-review-andys-house-blank/74946788/
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Home›Features›"Why I don't rush to visit violence-hit areas" President Buhari
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"Why I don't rush to visit violence-hit areas" President Buhari
During his visit in Taraba state yesterday, President Buhari gave reasons for not immediately visiting areas in the country that have recorded any form of violent attacks. Speaking to the state government officials and traditional rulers, President Buhari who has been criticised for never going to states to commiserate with them when they suffer any form of attack, said
"I am here (Taraba) to meet with the leadership of the state, to offer my condolences to those who lost loved ones and properties in violence. People, sometimes expect me to rush out to the fields, to go and make noise. But I have my ways of gathering intelligence. I get to know what is happening across the country without necessarily going to those areas. I will be going to Benue and Zamfara after I return from Ghana to also condole with the people," he said
Buhari, accompanied by Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State, had an interactive forum with traditional rulers, community leaders, representatives of farmers and herdsmen, security chiefs and some top government officials in the state.
The President said the ongoing efforts to restore peace would require the full support and commitment of all traditional institutions, especially in appealing to their followers to respect the dignity of life.
"I am appealing to the traditional rulers not to give up in pursuing peace,'' he said.
Buhari told the royal fathers and leaders that the government was fully committed to resolving the crises between herdsmen and farmers, and would be counting on their structures, good will and experience in promoting harmony.
The President warned that all the perpetrators of violence in the country would be investigated and prosecuted, while condoling the families that lost loved ones in the mayhems.
"I came here mainly to have this forum with leaders, traditional rulers and the state government to extend my condolences to all those who have lost loved ones and properties,'' he said.
Buhari said his administration had focused on securing the country since assumption of office, adding that the "worst critics of APC will agree that we have tried in improving the security situation in the country, right from the Boko Haram attacks.''
"The country has to be secured before you can manage the economy,'" the President noted.
In his remarks, Governor Ishaku said he inherited a state that was deeply divided along ethnic and tribal lines, noting that his government, working with security agencies, had been working hard to reconcile the different groups.
The governor, who commended the Federal Government for the ongoing construction of the Mambila Power Plant, said the completion of the project would greatly impact on the economy of the state, and the nation.
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By River Falls Journal Newsroom on Dec 5, 2018 at 11:00 a.m.
If you're on a streak in sports, you don't mess with it. I tried explaining this to my aunt, Diane, when she was graciously doing my laundry while visiting her home from college one weekend years ago.
"It's about time these are thrown away," Diane said, referring to my pair of tighty-whitie underwear complete with custom aerodynamic wind vents, or more commonly called, holes. They weren't technically "tighty-whities" though, because they were blue, or at least they were blue at one time. For our Bath & Body Works enthusiasts, I would classify them a cornflower blue shade near the end of their streak. By underwear streak, I mean the athletically inclined version, not an artificial accent to the cornflower color.
With pale-white sun-starved skin in February, I must've looked like a retro bizarro-world Smurf before the game uniform top dressing was added.
"Why did you have them in the first place?"
Other than "Pep," as he was known, the rest of the team completely understood. I never missed a free throw the last two years playing college basketball wearing those underwear.
"A player on a streak has to respect the streak," said catcher Crash Davis in the movie "Bull Durham," "because they don't happen very often."
I never really went to the line that much in college anyway, so it wasn't like my free-throw shooting streak was under the radar; it was just under wear and tear, really.
• Brett Favre playing 321 games in a row (counting play-off games) from 1992-2010 in the NFL.
Cal Ripken could limp in and take one at-bat during a game to keep his streak alive and he did on a number of occasions, but Favre's streak, by far, is the most impressive. Favre was knocked out of some games, but for almost 18 straight years through a broken thumb, sprained ankles, broken ribs, torn tendons, and every bump and bruise you can imagine, Favre showed up every single Sunday.
Showing up is exactly what River Falls High School Wrestling Coach Kevin Black did for 13 straight years when he was in school.
From 1985 through 1998, kindergarten through his senior year, Black did not miss one single day of school. He had perfect attendance for 2,340 consecutive school days.
"We were dairy farmers, so taking a day off wasn't an option," said Black. "We showed up every day and got our job done."
Black's lesser known attendance streak took a daily dose of discipline unfathomable by most and it laid the framework for his second and more memorable streak.
Black's "other" streak is his high school wrestling record on the mat. Black started with a win during his freshman year and kept on winning. Every. Single. Match. 160-0 during his four-year high school career, including four state titles.
This tremendous feat of discipline and talent were the bold letters on Black's wrestling resume, a resume good enough for him to recently be inducted into the George Martin Wisconsin Wrestling Hall of Fame.
attendance, "If I can ask one thing from the people in this room tonight is to say 'thank you' to Dave Black."
Dave and Kevin Black are the first father/son inductees in the Hall of Fame, with Dave having been inducted in 2007.
Kevin's Hall of Fame induction speech mirrors the way he lives his life. It was spoken with purpose and process, like two ropes tied together to form the knot known as his faith.
Asked if his religious faith was a different dose of discipline, Black replied, "God went from a religion to a relationship, but it's a daily decision. I challenge it every day."
Black's high school and University of Wisconsin Badger wrestling exploits may have been the bold letters on the beginning of his Hall of Fame resume, but his coaching endeavors will end up becoming the exclamation point.
Black is one of the biggest advocates in the country for women's wrestling. He's been coaching the top female wrestlers in the nation since 2003. In 2016, he coached Helen Maroulis to the first U.S. women's wrestling Olympic gold medal.
The U.S. had six states with sanctioned girls' high school wrestling last year. In 2018, the number has climbed to 13. Wisconsin, a hot bed for high school boys wrestling, is not on the list yet for the girls.
"We're working on it," said Black. "The worst enemy of girls wrestling is men's wrestling."
Black has also been the Wildcat wrestling coach since 2013 but said he sometimes feels like it's his first year.
"I'm still trying to figure it (coaching high school) out," said Black, "It's hard to identify with a kid who doesn't turn in his homework."
One thing you won't see is Black's high school wrestling team riding in elevators. His wrestlers take the stairs every time. They also don't cut through the middle school cafeteria when walking to the downstairs weight room. There's a purpose to this, just like most everything in Kevin Black's life. Kevin Black doesn't take short cuts and neither will his team when they open their season Thursday night.
"Do you want to let your life happen or live with a purpose," Black asks his team.
A Wildcat wrestling dad let me read a letter Coach Black wrote to the parents and team a few years ago.
In the letter, Coach Black instructed his team to make their bed every day and said, "How you do anything is how you do everything."
How inspiring is Kevin Black? Since the day I read his letter, I have made my bed every single day.
I started a new streak and it doesn't include cornflower blue underwear. Those underwear, however, have found a new streak of their own, miraculously, as the Peters' extended family Christmas gag gift during our annual Hall of Fame dice game.


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Feds Collect Record Individual Income Taxes Through March; Still Run $599.7B Deficit
By Terence P. Jeffrey | April 11, 2018 | 3:31pm EDT
(CNSNews.com) - The federal government collected a record $736,274,000,000 in individual income taxes through the first six months of fiscal 2018 (Oct. 1, 2017 through the end of March), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.
The approximately $736,274,000,000 in individual income taxes that the Treasury collected in October through March of this fiscal year was $24,473,780,000 more than the $711,800,220,000 (in constant March 2018 dollars) that the Treasury collected in the first six months of fiscal 2017.
While the federal government was collecting record individual income taxes in the first half of this fiscal year, both payroll taxes and corporate income taxes declined compared to last year.
In October through March of fiscal 2018, the federal government collected approximately $560,407,000,000 in Social Security and other payroll taxes. That was $3,210,000 less than the approximately $560,410,000,000 (in constant March 2018 dollars) that the federal government collected in Social Security and other payroll taxes in October through March of fiscal 2017.
In October through March of fiscal 2018, the federal government also collected approximately $78,607,000,000 in corporation income taxes. That was $23,992,230,000 less than the approximately $102,599,230,000 that the federal government collected in corporation income taxes (in constant March 2018 dollars) in October through March of fiscal 2017.
With the $23,992,230,000 cut in corporation income tax revenues between last fiscal year and this fiscal year, the federal government's overall tax haul in the first six months of this fiscal year declined compared to last year—even while individual income tax payments were increasing.
In the first six months of fiscal 2017, the Treasury collected $1,507,935,630,000 in total taxes (in constant March 2018 dollars). In the first six months of fiscal 2018, it has collected $1,497,005,000,000.
While taking in those $1,497,005,000,000 in tax dollars, the federal government spent $2,096,713,000,000, thus running a deficit of $599,708,000,000 for the first six months of the fiscal year.
That is $60,419,720,000 more than the $539,288,280,000 deficit (in constant March 2018 dollars) that the federal government ran in the first six months of fiscal 2017.


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LHT chief foresees 'fierce' MRO competition for legacy jets
By Cirium2020-08-20T17:02:00+01:00
Lufthansa Technik chief executive Johannes Bussmann has predicted MRO-sector consolidation during the coming winter season, and that prolonged operations of legacy aircraft will spark "fairly fierce competition" among maintenance providers.
Speaking during the MRO Five Years From Now webinar hosted by Hamburg-based research centre ZAL on 19 August, Bussmann acknowledged the lack of visibility on how the coronavirus crisis might change the competitive environment, but added: "What is really foreseeable is that not everybody will survive this situation. It depends on how long it will last."
Noting restructuring efforts already under way at several MRO providers, Bussmann says: "This is something that we will see in an increased manner… later this year, maybe early next year."
Source: LHT
Lufthansa Technik chief executive Johannes Bussmann
Maintenance providers' activity typically peaks during winter periods when airlines' fleet utilisation drops and there is time for longer checks.
Bussmann expects that as airlines defer deliveries of new-generation to preserve cash, legacy equipment will stay in service longer than previously anticipated. The extended demand for established MRO capabilities and increased spare-part availability from parked aircraft will drive "fairly fierce competition on the existing legacy fleets", he believes.
Single-aisle and regional aircraft will be the focus of particular intense competition. In the long-haul segment – badly affected by low demand amid international travel restrictions – airlines tend to deploy fuel-efficient, new-generation widebody twinjets to keep operating costs low.
"We will have a possibility to learn how the new technologies and the new aircraft… are behaving," Bussmann notes. "But [for] the majority of the market, it will be fairly fierce competition due to the older technologies remaining in the market a couple of years longer than had been expected."
Earlier this month, Lufthansa Group disclosed that LHT had swung to an €194 million ($226 million) EBIT loss during the April-June quarter, from a €112 million profit during the same period in 2019. Revenue declined 57% to €688 million.
Bussmann says the MRO provider has seen a recovery as airlines operate "a little bit" during the summer. However, he says demand is about "half of what we normally need" and that there is "even less" activity in the lucrative engine support segment.
About 10,000 German-based employees are currently furloughed under Germany's short-time working scheme. The staff reduction represents a "significant impact" on the company, Bussmann acknowledges.
While the government-sponsored furlough programme "really helps" LHT to deal with the crisis, Bussmann says the scheme still leaves a "majority" of staff costs to the company. As the MRO provider currently generates "in some areas zero revenue", the staff situation presents "still a big challenge". He adds: "That's what we are working on."
Alluding to the webinar's title, Bussmann says "the first task… is to get to the fifth year" and that the priority is to "stop the bleeding in different areas". But he also expresses confidence that the company will weather the storm.
"We are fairly sure that this crisis will be over one day." Citing an intake of 240 new apprentices this month, he adds: "We are still thinking [about] what has to happen in the future in the next five years."
ZAL chief executive Roland Gerhards – another webinar participant – meanwhile suggests that the crisis will have an effect on the business model of hour-based engine maintenance agreements.
Such contracts – usually between equipment manufacturers and operators – have become standard, especially for newly delivered engines, but Gerhard says the competitive MRO environment will "definitely change" because of comparatively low aircraft utilisation amidst the crisis.
With much of their fleets on the ground and limited deployment even for active aircraft, operators are in a position to replace engines rather than to send them to shop for repair and overhaul.
Gerhard notes a lack of clarity about further MRO market developments. But he says: "The power-by-hour contract is something weak at the moment.
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Rodger Levenson – Chairman, President and CEO Wilmington Savings Fund Society – WSFS – email address
Rodger Levenson is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of WSFS Financial Corporation and its primary subsidiary, WSFS Bank.
Rodger has been a member of the WSFS Executive Management team since joining the Company in 2006. He has held several leadership roles at WSFS including: Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Operating Officer from July 2017 to December 2018, EVP and Chief Corporate Development Officer from June 2016 to July 2017, interim EVP and Chief Financial Officer from April 2015 to June 2016, and EVP and Chief Commercial Banking Officer from November 2006 to April 2015.
Prior to his WSFS tenure, Rodger was a Senior Vice President at Citizens Bank—from 2003 to 2006—and a member of its regional senior leadership team. He began his banking career in 1986 in Philadelphia at CoreStates Financial (now part of Wells Fargo) where he led several business units over 17 years.
An active member of the Greater Delaware Valley community, Rodger lends his experience and expertise to several local not-for-profit and public-private organizations that promote economic development, affordable housing, and access to quality education for children. His community service spans memberships on several Boards of Directors, including The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, the United Way of Delaware. He also serves as a member of the Delaware Business Roundtable. An Executive Board Member of The Wilmington Alliance, Rodger also champions the revitalization and economic growth of Wilmington, Del., where WSFS was founded and remains headquartered. Rodger was the Chairman of the Delaware Bankers Association from 2014 to 2016 and served its Board from 2011-2016.
A native of Broomall, Pa., Rodger earned a Master of Business Administration from Drexel University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Temple University. He reinforced his leadership experiences with certifications from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Center for Creative Leadership, and Harvard Business School.
Rodger and his family reside in Greenville, Delaware.
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